on my work machine (.NET 2003, VAX 1274) Color is shown in purple in most places. jumping to the .h defining colour "GdiplusColor.h" shows Color to be purple, rather than the correct blue. this suggests that the namespace is a red herring, at least for that machine.
of course, when i try this at home, Color is shown both blue and italic
the two machines should have the same VAX settings, so i am not sure what is causing this problem.
ideally i need to be able to reproduce a problem before i raise a task. any thoughts on what might be triggering this?